Aloha and Welcome! This is the Kapi'olani Community College Chapter of Slow Food located in Honolulu, Hawaii. Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.
Today, we have over 100,000 members all over the world!

Monday, April 26, 2010

We were invited back to UH Manoa to provide refreshments for the 2nd annual CEJE Rock The Boat Concert. The menu was vegetarian tacos made with soft corn tortillas, chipotle beans, locally sourced "calabacitas" (a saute of corn, squash and peppers) as well as delicious condiments including avocado salsa verde, pico de gallo and pickled hearts of palm. Our simple but tasty food was available to the performers and concertgoers participating in Rock the Boat. As always we had an amazing time. Thanks to Eri Oura for coordinating with us!!

See this link for more info about CEJE http://www2.hawaii.edu/~ceje/Home.html

Friday, April 23, 2010

The club shared slow food possibilities with students on campus at this years Earth Day Celebration, providing food for both the mind, soul and tummy. We raised some awareness and funds with our delicious tasty treats of baked Twin Bridges (North Shore) savory potatoes and Sun Farms (Big Island) Okinawan sweet potatoes, topped with freshly churned flavored butters from our Love Your Local Dairy Workshop

Monday, April 19, 2010

Monique Van der Stroom and Sabrina St. Martin are two sisters with a mission: to bring local fresh butter and dairy products back to the island of Oahu. Naked Cow Dairy, the sisters’ venture into the world of artisanal dairy products, makes a huge array of flavored butters as well as a smart selection of tasty cheeses and yogurt all from local milk and cream. On a beautiful Sunday in April, Monique and Sabrina helped a group of Slow Foodies from both our KCC campus chapter and the Oahu chapter learn the intricacies, methods and issues with making our own butter from scratch. Although the day started with a few hiccups (missing keys, weird temperatures, overfilling the churn etc..) we accomplished our goal of transforming 12 gallons of local cream into 40 lbs of freshly churned butter. The sisters transported their butter churning machine and equipment for our use and walked us through churning, washing and beating (!) our butter into delicious submission.. Each participant in the workshop took home a pound of butter some with creative flavorings and we prepared several pounds to adorn local baked potatoes for our Earth Day festivities. There is NOTHING like freshly churned butter. YUM!! Naked Cow Dairy is found at many farmer’s markets in Honolulu including Saturdays at the KCC Farmer’s Market and the Hawaii Kai Farmer’s Market and Wednesdays at the Blaisdell Farmer’s Market.

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society Induction Ceremony

Saturday, April 17 - KCC CAMPUS

10am- 5pm

KCC Slow Food members made a wonderful pupu selection for PTK Induction Ceremony. Thanks to Anna, Brandee, Ellka, Erin, Gida, Robert and San for volunteering time to prepare finger-foods for the event. WE made bruschettas with tomatoes and handmade mozzarrella, smoked salmon on brioche with dill oil, horseradish devilish local eggs, and leek, blue cheese, house-made sausage tart to name a few items. This was a great opportunity to practice our craft, skills of menu planning and have some fun together.